Chaka Khan

She Feels for You! In Era of Digital Dreck, Thank G-d for Chaka Khan

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A few days before the singer Chaka Khan would win two Grammys for Funk This, her first album in 10 years, she was sitting at Sardi’s in midtown: skin glowing, hair unending, taking a long draw on a Parliament. “I’m fine,” she said, when asked if smoking was O.K. for her voice. “There is a way to keep my voice in order. One of them is to shut up. I hibernate. I sleep as long as possible when I’m working. And then I come out.”

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Chaka Khan Joins Color Purple Cast

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Chaka Khan is, indeed, every woman, including Sofia in the Broadway Theatre's production of The Color Purple. Gospel singer Bebe Winans, who had a small role in The Manchurian Candidate, will also join the cast tonight. Check here for tickets.  read more »